You know what video games do influence us in the real world. I planted a car into a lampost once for trying to take the same line I would in Gran Turismo. Should the game be banned? No, I shouldn't have been such a wally in my nissan sunny thinking it was a skyline

Games are useful for teaching you self defence. After being attacked from behind on a night out, I took my home-made battle rifle which I'd hidden down my trousers and proceeded to melee attack the youth. I could have shot him, but remembered from playing Halo 2, that the melee attack is just as effective in close quarter combat. Afterwards, I tea-bagged him good and proper.

They can also be a hinderance to self defence though. After spending the day playing on a wii, the fight I got into that night was rather short with my chosen defence being me waving a tv remote about trying to perform an uppercut.

Thats what these activists don't get, they create massive amounts of hype for the product they are against.

Take Bully for instance (canis canem edit). They didn't even bother finding out what the game was really about they saw the name, gave their knickers another twist and made sure it hit the headlines, you can't buy that kind of publicity.